Thursday, August 29, 2013

NIH Director's Early Independence Awards (DP5)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-13-009.html

Description:
The National Institutes of Health Common Fund announces the FY 2014 funding opportunity for the NIH Director’s Early Independence Awards (EIA).  The EIA initiative allows exceptional junior scientists to accelerate their transition to an independent research career by “skipping” the traditional postdoctoral training. To be eligible, candidates must be within one year (before or after) of completion of their terminal degree or clinical residency at the time of application.  Each institution (as defined by a unique DUNS identifier) may submit up to two applications in response to this FOA. Letters of intent are due Dec. 31, 2013. Applications are due January 31, 2014. See the instructions in the Funding Opportunity Announcement (RFA-RM-13-009). 

Monday, August 26, 2013

National Indian Health Outreach and Education Funding Opportunity

Additional Information:
http://www.ihs.gov/dgm/documents/HHS-2013-IHS-NIHOE-0003.pdf

Description:

The Indian Health Service (IHS) is accepting competitive applications for the Office of Direct Service and Contracting Tribes (ODSCT) cooperative agreement for the National Indian Health Outreach and Education (NIHOE) III funding opportunity that includes outreach and education activities on the following: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pub. L. No. 111-148 (PPACA), as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, Pub. L. No. 111-152, collectively known as the Affordable Care Act , and the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (IHCIA), as amended. This program is authorized under: the Snyder Act, codified at 25 U.S.C. 13, and the Transfer Act, codified at 42 U.S.C. 2001(a). This program is described in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance under 93.933. 

The purpose of this IHS cooperative agreement announcement is to encourage national Indian organizations and IHS, Tribal, and Urban (I/T/U) partners to work together to conduct Affordable Care Act/IHCIA training and technical assistance throughout Indian Country. Under the Limited Competition NIHOE Cooperative Agreement program, the overall program objective is to improve Indian health care by conducting training and technical assistance across AI/AN communities to ensure that the Indian health care system and all AI/ANs are prepared to take advantage of the new health insurance coverage options which will improve the quality of and access to health care services, and increase resources for AI/AN health care. The goal of this program announcement is to coordinate and conduct training and technical assistance on a national scale for the 566 Federally-recognized Tribes, and Tribal organizations on the changes, improvements and authorities of the Affordable Care Act and IHCIA in anticipation of the Health Insurance Marketplace October 1, 2013 open enrollment date and coverage start date of January 1, 2014. This collaborative effort will benefit I/T/U as well as the AI/AN communities including Tribal and urban populations and elders/seniors.

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

High Priority Behavioral and Social Research Networks (R24)


High Priority Behavioral and Social Research Networks (R24)
The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), working in part with funds contributed by the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (http://obssr.od.nih.gov/index.aspx), is to provide infrastructure support for advancing development of specific emerging and high priority interdisciplinary areas of behavioral and social research of relevance to aging. The infrastructure support will facilitate research networks through meetings, conferences, small scale pilots, training, and dissemination to encourage growth and development of specified priority areas and of resources for the field at large. Projects are solicited that will develop, strengthen, and evaluate transdisciplinary approaches and methods for basic behavioral and/or social research.
Application Due Date: October 23, 2013

FAQ: Answers to any frequently asked questions regarding this FOA will be posted at:  http://www.nia.nih.gov/research/dbsr/faq-networks-rfa-r24


POTENTIAL UK APPLICANTS PLEASE NOTE: The UK Economic and Social Research Council has expressed interest in independently funding components of applications submitted under this initiative. Please refer to the FAQ for further information.

Friday, August 16, 2013

Health Promotion Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Males (R01)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-13-328.html

Description:
This initiative seeks applications from applicants that propose to stimulate and expand research in the health of minority men. Specifically, this initiative is intended to: 1) enhance our understanding of the numerous factors (e.g., sociodemographic, community, societal, personal) influencing the health promoting behaviors of racial and ethnic minority males and their subpopulations across the life cycle, and 2) encourage applications focusing on the development and testing of culturally and linguistically appropriate health-promoting interventions designed to reduce health disparities among racially and ethnically diverse males and their subpopulations age 21 and older.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Behavioral and Social Science Research on Understanding and Reducing Health Disparities

Additional Information:
R01 - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-13-292.html
R21 - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-13-288.html




Description:
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) issues this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to encourage research project grant applications (R01, R21) employing behavioral and social science theories, concepts, and methods (1) to improve understanding of the causes of disparities in health and disability among the various populations of the United States and (2) to develop and test interventions for reducing and eventually eliminating health disparities. The purpose of this FOA is to encourage behavioral and social science research on the causes and solutions to health and disabilities disparities in the U. S. population. 

Health disparities between, on the one hand, racial/ethnic populations, lower socioeconomic classes, and rural residents and, on the other hand, the overall U.S. population are major public health concerns. Emphasis is placed on research in and among three broad areas of action: 1) public policy, 2) health care, and 3) disease/disability prevention. Particular attention is given to reducing “health gaps” among groups. Applications that utilize an interdisciplinary approach, investigate multiple levels of analysis, incorporate a life-course perspective, and/or employ innovative methods such as systems science or community-based participatory research are particularly encouraged.

Monday, August 12, 2013

Understanding Barriers and Facilitators to Type 1 Diabetes Management in Adults (DP3)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-13-023.html

Description:
The goal of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support research that will identify barriers and facilitators to good diabetes self management in adults with type 1 diabetes. The results from this research should inform future intervention research in adults with type 1 diabetes.

Improving Diabetes Management in Young Children with Type 1 Diabetes (DP3)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-13-022.html

Description:
The goal of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support research to develop, refine, and pilot test innovative strategies to improve diabetes management in young children with type 1 diabetes (5 years old and under).  At the end of the funding period, there should be a well-developed and well-characterized intervention that has been demonstrated to be safe, feasible to implement, acceptable in the target population, and, if promising, ready to be tested in a larger efficacy trial.

Friday, August 2, 2013

NIH Transformative Research Awards (R01)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-13-008.html

Description:
The NIH Transformative Research Awards complements NIH’s traditional, investigator-initiated grant programs by supporting individual scientists or groups of scientists proposing groundbreaking, exceptionally innovative, original and/or unconventional research with the potential to create new scientific paradigms, establish entirely new and improved clinical approaches, or develop transformative technologies. Little or no preliminary data are expected. Projects must clearly demonstrate the potential to produce a major impact in a broad area of biomedical or behavioral research.